#2 Son is increasingly into this. We finished USS Arizona some time ago. I did this thing with strips of chart tape and different shades of teak brown to produce a more realistic looking deck. Now we're working on a 1:700 USS Yorktown (CV 5).

It turns out that there are now lots of LED kits for models. I don't know anything about circuitry is there a decent book on wiring LED circuits? I know the Vs and Ohms are generally quite low, and I know the difference between parallel and series, but I could use a refresher and something that talks specifically about techniques for things like mating a fiber optic line end to a porthole.

The reason for all that is not to light up a USN ship but instead because I could not resist purchasing a scale model of the Roger Young from "Starship Troopers" (film) and I would love love love to detail it and light it up.

There are a couple of manufacturers of pre-assembled LED kits for models, and a couple others that sell the lights, the breadboards, the f.o. lines, etc. No one has a pre-made interior lighting kit for Roger Young though. So I need to learn to do it myself.

As they have assembled and painted it, the "windows" are white paint. Ima go the full detail route. Interior lighting. I can cut my own windows. I've downloaded some art "blueprint" type schematics for Roger Young so that I can add exterior details as needed to give it more depth and detail.

About the airbrush compressor thread - you must be airbrushing.. Take pictures of what ur doing and upload plz. This stuff is interesting imo

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#2 Son is increasingly into this. We finished USS Arizona some time ago. I did this thing with strips of chart tape and different shades of teak brown to produce a more realistic looking deck. Now we're working on a 1:700 USS Yorktown (CV 5).

It turns out that there are now lots of LED kits for models. I don't know anything about circuitry is there a decent book on wiring LED circuits? I know the Vs and Ohms are generally quite low, and I know the difference between parallel and series, but I could use a refresher and something that talks specifically about techniques for things like mating a fiber optic line end to a porthole.

The reason for all that is not to light up a USN ship but instead because I could not resist purchasing a scale model of the Roger Young from "Starship Troopers" (film) and I would love love love to detail it and light it up.

I know electricity is that smoke and sparks substance that goes inside those thin power tubes.

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